Lovers Day, a special day to reflect on those I love

As you can tell I'm slow at posting updates about our life adventures, since I'm always a week behind. I wanted to express to you, family and friends (if I have any friends out there reading this) how much I love and appreciate all you do for me. 

I am truly blessed to have such good Parents who taught me good values and principles and lived the way they taught. Who love me so dearly and continue to support me through all my deeds. 

My wonderful four brothers and four sisters who I cherish so dearly, I look to your examples everyday and your friendship means the world to me. 

My dear sister-in-laws and brother in law, so happy to know my siblings are in very very good hands and your friendship and love strengthens the family. 

My friends who continue to care for me. 

My sweet little mister, who on a daily basis brings a piece of Heaven into my life. and reminds me how much I love being a Mother. 

My dearest Mister, whom I love with all my heart. He makes my life complete, I am so blessed that the Lord through his kindness inspired the Stephens family to make the decision to move next door so I could marry the man of my dreams, for truly he is the man I always dreamed of.

I love each one of you dearly. 

My mister came home and surprised me with a beautiful Daisy (a favorite) and the sweetest love note ever.

Here is an idea to surprise your sweetheart next year that I surprised mine. 

It is 14 reasons why I love you zippy bag filled with surprises stapled to a favorite treat.
I wrote 14 reasons why I love Daniel on little slips of paper and on the back I provided 14 different treats. I tried to correlate the treats with the reasons but some were hard to think of so I just did random ones for those.  Some included a 15 min massage, three 15 minute back tickles, temple date night, iron all his shirts for a month, make his favorite main dish, side dish, drink and dessert.  Simple but meaningful cause i know these are a lot of his favorite things.

We spent the night with the Osmond family. Shelbs made two killer salads and the best mini rolls. 

We contributed with bringing a dessert to share but do you
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these are the trying to be famous cookies... we didn't have shortening so we used margarine instead and they tasted bready equals not very good. 

So . . . Valentines night we made Daniel's (Stephens Family's) famous chocolate chip recipe found here. And this time we had shortening and wow they were amazing.. even after 2 days they were still mouth watering. 

Giant size cookies makes for a great date activity.. Now create a masterpiece of your own.

The new Look

 Hair is one of those features that just makes a big difference on how you look... I have always dreamed  of having long gorgeous locks, but unfortunately I was not blessed with that feature and when I try growing it out, instead of having gorgeous healthy looking hair I dream of, it looks damaged and stringy. 

With the combination of stringyness and the root color growing back in, I couldn't help but sigh/whine a bit every time I looked in the mirror. 

So. . . I finally took a leap and got a hair cut and darkened my hair a bit. 

When Daniel came home that night he ran up to me, kissed me and said, "Wow! You Look GOOD, I absolutely love your hair!  He raved and raved about it throughout the week and told me he hopes I always keep my hair this length.

He even told me I looked more mature and older. . . (you mean I don't look like I'm in High School anymore ha)

It sure made me feel like a million bucks and of course helped me like it more myself.

Still was hard to get used to for the first couple of days, but I'm liking the fact Little mister Calvin can't grab it anymore.

Calvin is growing up so fast, he can lift his head up by himself while lying on my legs, he talks up a storm before bedtime just like he did in the womb except he moved instead of talked. He is grabbing things a lot more and can almost roll over. 

Here is a video of him talking

Year 23

Well I guess I'll tell you about my Birthday and the fun things I got to do...

The sad part about this whole post is I did not take one picture. How could I do such a thing on such a Awesome day (groundhogs, my bday) you ask?  Well. . . I don't know. 

The day started out great. Daniel didn't have class because he had exams all week so we got to snuggy and eat Yummy French Toast with bananas that he made.

Mom came down to celebrate along with Shelbs and Daxton

Another thing that is remembered on Feb 2 is Jimmy Jr. Life. 

Moms siblings and grandma all gathered at Mimmi's and Susie's shop to show their love and support. Such a loving act and I know Susie and Mimmie appreciated them being there as they go through the heartache of losing their son.
We love you Garfalious Family

Next we went to my most favorite sandwhich place.... Pita Pit. 

I go here every year for my Birthday. It's so delicious I could never get sick of it. 

We had fun chit chatting and being together.

I got to help out with Achievement Days and ate some tasty Japanese pancakes.

Calvin and I had some bonding time.

For dinner I didn't want to go out to eat, I wanted Daniel to make me Homemade Lasagna and his famous bread sticks. It's probably one of my very favorite meals, but since he had his exam, he didn't get home until 6:45, so we headed into town. I could not make a decision of where to go and the  deciding factor was I got a free appetizer at Chili's so that became the winner. I even got free dessert too. 

On Saturday Daniel treated me to night out to BYU Men's Volleyball Game. He knows how much I love volleyball and this was his first time going to a game. I think he's converted now. it was an intense game except for the fact they lost 3-0. Before the game Dan made lasagna and bread sticks and had the pleasure of having Kelsi, Jason, Shelby and Brandon join us. After the game we all gathered back here to have cake and ice cream.
Thanks everyone for the fun filled weekend and all the kind words, thoughts and deeds you gave to me to make my day extra Special.

My 22nd year was filled with many joys and memories here are a few. . .
Found out I was pregnant with the little mister
Celebrated our 1 year Anniversary 
Interned with Select Health and Cancer Wellness House
Went to Washington D.C. for the first time
Said my goodbyes to Nannying little Ella
Went to Nauvoo with the Stephens Family
Park Citying it up with the Hansen's
Speed walked a 5k at 36 weeks pregnant
Gave birth to my first born and little angel
Calvin R Stephens
Graduated from Utah Valley University in Public Health
Became a Full-Time Momma

Year 23, can't wait for more adventures